Speak Life

“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks,” says Jesus in Matthew 12:37.

“The power of life and death is in the tongue,” reads Proverbs 18:21.

When a friend wanted me to commiserate with her about our former Pastor, I finally said, “I don’t want to say anything against her. She and I may be in ministry together one day.” Immediately the friend said, “Yes, met too, I may work with her in ministry again.”

It was such a relief for the friend’s attempts to stop. I didn’t want to deal with the hard things that we went through at the church by doing more harm. God orchestrated a reconciliation or understanding between the Pastor and I much later. It happened to be Christmastime and we talked about how Jesus is the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18).

*Please name a time you spoke life in a dark situation and it brought positive change.

"He brought me to his banquet hall and raised the banner of love over me. Restore my strength with raisins and refresh me with apples! I am weak from passion... His left hand is under my head and his right hand caresses me" - Song of Solomon 2:4-6